Do you know where this is?

The boarded-up windows and sagging porch make this Worcester house appear to be abandoned and unloved, but the reality was quite the opposite.

The home had been held by the same owner for nearly half a century until 1953, when something other than neglect made it uninhabitable.

Savvy Worcesterites will have no problem figuring out that it was the tornado that year that was responsible for the demise of quite a few buildings in the city — and outside it.

In the late afternoon of June 9, 1953, a tornado spent nearly 90 minutes on the ground traveling for 46 miles through Petersham, Rutland and Holden before hitting the northern suburbs of Worcester around 5 p.m. It moved on to Shrewsbury, Westboro and Southboro.

While it spent only about half an hour in Worcester, the destruction it left in its wake made whole neighborhoods look like a bomb had gone off.

Homes built on slabs disappeared in an instant. More solid structures like this one fared better — but just barely.

Now considered an F4 tornado as evidenced by the damage (it occurred before the Fujita scale was adopted), the storm killed 94 people, 60 of them from Worcester. More than a thousand were injured, and 15,000 were left homeless. The tornado cost more than $50 million in damage.

Cutting a swath a mile wide in some places, the tornado completely destroyed many buildings and left some, like this building, seriously damaged.

Hint: Is a hint really necessary following a 200-word description of the tornado that ripped through northern Worcester? Well, don't assume anything.